Berlin Cola

A look at the era of kidnappings in Northern Italy by organized crime in the 1980s and is freely inspired by the longest kidnapping in the history of the country, that of Carlo Celadon.

An Austrian Jewish teenager exiled with his family to a village in the Vicentine Alps wins over the locals, and even the podestà’s sons, by sharing his forbidden love of jazz and joining the town band. After the German occupation following September 8, they flee with the community’s help, linking up with partisans who guide them safely across the Swiss border. Loosely based on jazzman Oscar Klein’s 1944 escape.

1944, a man and a woman meet in a train station during the Nazi occupation. It is the beginning of a touching love affair, the impossible love between a young teacher involved in the Resistance and the brilliant official of a fascist ministry, within the framework of the partisan struggle that takes place on the "red lands" of the Alto Vicentino . War will bring down their certainties and profoundly mark the fate of both.